What's blooming in the alpine/rock garden?

Goldenfish, those are Japanese Jack-in-the-Pulpit, right? I wonder what USA Zones they will grow in?

They should be certainly zone 5 hardy. In the right places, people here grow them in zone 4a.

Wonderful pics, goldenfish!

I've got them. Just a lovely plant. Zone 6. Some one dug up
a lot of them and brought them to our chapter plant sale. There
were so many that we had to mark them down to sell them all.

Goldenfish - beautifully grown & photographed plants!

Thank you every one

Galanthophile,
Please be sure to have this one because it's very interesting plant:)

HappyJackMom,
I didn't know the name of this plant in English. "Jack-in-the-Pulpit" is
lovely name! In Japan, it 's called "Yukimotisou" (snow rice-cake plant)

Oh, thanks everyone, I will try to find some! Those are very good photos Goldenfish! We have put up a fence for a memorial garden for my Mom and need some more shade plants, so thought they would look great there.

Grandma's Garden area (still a work in process)

I found this neat description of "Yukimotisou" (snow rice-cake plant), aka Japanese Jack-in-the-Pulpit:

http://www.paghat.com/pulpit-snowrice.html

The more I read about them the more interesting they are!

Donna

Its like summer here today! It hit 80deg F

Erythronium Grandiflorum. Its very happy in this little front garden.

Othonna capensis 'Little Pickles' - so cute!

Pulsatilla vulgaris

Saxifraga sp betscho pass siberia ... cheating 'cause I just got this.
It came in a little cube of tufa. I sure hope it survives here.

I have never seen an Othonna c. before, but googling seems to say it is not one. Any further comments? Certainly a handsome plant though.

New to me too! I had to look it up... seems to be another of those Drakensberg wonders.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othonna

http://www.paghat.com/littlepickles.html

Edit: Oh, do you perhaps think it's not Othonna, Rick? The flowers and leaf shape look very much like Delosperma.

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Lovely photos all! This is a wondrous time of year, is it not? Something new coming up all the time.
I took a little stroll with my camera and got a few nice shots. I too am cheating a little as some of these plants are new.

This is one of my many Epimediums, youngianum niveum

The last bloom on Kerria japonica

A new Aquilegia, Blackcurrant Ice

Another Epimedium, Dark Beauty

Finally, the lovely face of the Panda Face Ginger!

Welcome Kudrick!
Nice photos. I always wondered if that ginger was really as nice as other pics lead you to think. And I see it is. Thanks! Would sure like to see a pic of the whole plant. Too bad it wouldn't survive here.
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I guess I was a bit unintentionally ambiguous about the Othonna. Yes, I am wondering if Tammy's pic is really O. capensis, or some other Delosperma or Delosperma relative. The google pics seem to be uniformly different in their flowers: petals much wider and smaller number of them, with a different aspect and some curling, much larger flower center, only single color petals, very pronounced and relatively thin flower stems, along with the slightly differing leaf shape. I don't see how this could be attributed to variation within the species. Then again, I've been wrong before.

You could be right. The flowers have shorter stems that those in the pictures.

Kudrick - welcome! Nice pictures.

I like your fence, HappyJackMom!

Wonderful plants, Tammy and Kudrick!

Leftwood, this is for you. The flowers hide under the foliage.

Is that asarum maxium? I love these plants. I have one but the leaves are a bit ragged and it hasn't produced any new leaves so I've moved it as I don't want to lose it.

Very nice. Thanks Kudrick

Galanthophile, yes it is. They like shady spots.

Hi kudrick,
Lovely selections.... All of them are my favorites:)

Amsonia elliptica is blooming by the Pulsatilla.

Goldenfish, your Amsonia is beautiful. I just planted 3 A. hubrichtii and can't wait to see them in the fall!

Now that it's finally stopped snowing for a couple of days (not since Thursday, whoo hoo!), here's a baby Androsace carnea 'Alba':

Adonis vernalis, starting to bloom:

Beautiful adonis. Mine should be blooming shortly but I haven't had any snow for months! How do you bear it!

It ain't easy, LOL! Looking at all the wonderful things in bloom on this and other forums is starting to make me a little depressed! Sometimes I think I should either pave over the yard and give up... or stop looking at those forums, ha ha!
Ooops, I see my photo of a puny Androsace carnea 'Alba' didn't come through. Here it is:

You must enjoy your blooms all the more for the period you have them at their best!

That's a glorious Adonis. So well named.

I think this is Androsace Lactiflora.

"Open gardens" (garden visits) have started with the local rock garden club. Today, I visited two of the most exquisite gardens in Calgary (well, within a much, much broader radius, definitely!)
With permission of the owner to take photos, here is Callianthemum anemonoides:




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And, as above, Caragana jubata, a wonderful spiny, furry thing, leafing out in spring (today, that is):

And from my own meager pickings... sigh!.....(LOL!), Hepatica nobilis 'Rubra Plena':

NB. These are last year's leaves; new leaf growth hasn't started yet.

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Here are the Eritrichium canum var. canum that have been blooming since around the beginning of April, from a Feb. 15 sowing. They are a slightly darker, richer blue than shown.

What a lovely selection. Love that callianthemum!

Just got back from Ecuador and the galapagos. Saw some freaky alpines in the Paramo region of the Andes...reminded me of high alpine zones of New Zealand...lots of hard bun-forming plants. I'll start a thread once I've sorted the pics.

I didn't miss much at home. Still few alpines open in the garden. I thought I'd show my Corydalis solida ssp. transylvanica I got from Ruksans last fall.

Just as a tease. Here is a shot of some of the Paramo buns. I think they are Bolax of some sort.

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Fantastic Bolax! Sounds like a fascinating trip - looking forward to hearing more about it..